We invite you to join our digital summit “China, the World, and the COVID Story: How We Got Here and What Lies Ahead!” The summit, co-organized by Chinese Storytellers, NüVoices, [ … ]
Chinese opera is being revitalized—with a gender twist
BY ELYSE RIBBONS Walking through a village in Ninghai—a county in the Chinese city of Ningbo—on a sunny afternoon, I found the oppressive heat to be in distinct contrast with [ … ]
Freelance: How to pitch Ariana magazine
Launched in 2018, Ariana is a print and digital publication that focuses on social justice issues in Hong Kong, Macau and greater Asia. With an aim to inform and empower, [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: Seeking creativity through multimedia journalism with Yuan Ren
Journalism is a tough industry to break into, but expanding your multimedia and broadcast skills is a great way to enhance your versatility and job prospects. For Chinese journalist Yuan [ … ]
China’s #MeToo: In literature and reality, the patriarchy keeps women from helping women. But they’re fighting back.
BY EMILY MATSON In both literature and in real life, women in China are reluctant to stand up for one another and themselves, and are implicated in their own oppression. [ … ]
Why is China still so reluctant to help us find our birth parents?
BY ANDRÉ-ANNE CÔTÉ “Ayi, why did you start working at the orphanage?” I asked. “Because I had to. Orders were coming from the top. Of course, I wouldn’t have chosen [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: Foreign correspondence and China, with Megha Rajagopalan
Megha Rajagopalan is an award-winning international correspondent for BuzzFeed News, based in London. In this conversation recorded on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean in London and New York, Megha [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: Gender, self-discovery, and vibe curation with Mengwen Cao
Mengwen Cao is a photographer, multimedia artist, and cultural organizer. In this conversation recorded during the first week of lockdown in New York City, Mengwen and NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talk [ … ]
Film: Outcry and Whisper
Shot over an eight-year period, Outcry and Whisper presents itself as a political manifesto for the resistance of women, be they workers, artists, intellectuals or militants, in Chinese and Hong Kong [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: Coronavirus and the racism epidemic
As racism and the COVID-19 virus spread simultaneously, Asian people around the world are finding themselves terrified to step outside — and not just because they’re worried about getting sick. [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: U.S.-China cyber competition and cooperation with Julia Voo
Julia Voo is the research director for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center’s new China Cyber Policy Initiative. In this episode, Julia and NüVoices board member Cindy Gao talk about [ … ]
Opinion: In Hong Kong, the government is weaponising sex to downplay its failures
BY SOPHIE MAK Last week, Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced a ban on alcohol sales at eateries as part of a series of measures to combat the spread of coronavirus. [ … ]
NüProfile: Madeline Leung Coleman on diaspora, feminism and freelance writing
BY CINDY GAO NüProfile is a column featuring in-depth conversations with diverse women working on China subjects. It’s not every day you get a call from a Golden Globe winner [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: Di Wang on LGBTQ rights and representation in China
Di Wang is a feminist researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She joined NüVoices co-host Cindy Gao in Brooklyn to converse about the LGBTQ movement that is underway in [ … ]
Essay: Thrift Stor(i)es
BY GRACE OUYANG Nonnative is a new series of personal essays on the Asian American experience with a focus on Chinese culture by Grace Ouyang, a writer based in Brooklyn. [ … ]
London’s Papergang Theatre presents FREEDOM HI 自由閪: A show exploring the Hong Kong protests
BY PAPERGANG THEATRE We invite you to come and watch our show Freedom Hi 自由閪: A compilation of new writing and performance art by UK based Hong Kong and British [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: A wealth of anger and a wealth of time – Wuhan and the coronavirus
Wuhan native Rui Zhong is a program associate for the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center, in Washington, D.C. In this episode, Rui and [ … ]
I am a Wuhan girl
BY YULI YANG “I am a Wuhan girl” was originally posted on Yang’s social media. I am a Wuhan girl living in Hong Kong. Right now, all my close family [ … ]
NüVoices Podcast: Chinese philanthropy in the 21st century
Emily Weaver, a social impact and philanthropy consultant who was based in China for over a decade, joins Chenni and Cindy as their guest this week. She has worked with [ … ]
In pictures: Behind the frontlines of the Hong Kong protests
BY KATHERINE CHENG “Hong Kong Protests: Behind the Frontlines” is a photo essay originally published in 2019 on Katherine Cheng’s website. The Hong Kong protests are a series of ongoing [ … ]